Johnson Home Farm

Johnson Home Farm
Location Road 453 east of junction with Delaware Route 9 in Blackbird Hundred, near Taylor's Bridge, Delaware
Coordinates 39°24′42″N 75°34′59″W / 39.41167°N 75.58306°W / 39.41167; -75.58306Coordinates: 39°24′42″N 75°34′59″W / 39.41167°N 75.58306°W / 39.41167; -75.58306
Area 1 acre (0.40 ha)
Built 1790 (1790)
Architectural style Federal
MPS Dwellings of the Rural Elite in Central Delaware MPS
NRHP Reference # 92001133[1]
Added to NRHP September 11, 1992

Johnson Home Farm is a historic home located near Taylor's Bridge, New Castle County, Delaware. It was built about 1790, and is a two-story, five-bay, gable-roof, post-and-plank building with interior brick chimneys at each gable end. It has a center-passage plan with overall dimensions of 39 feet wide by 22 feet deep. A two-story, wood-frame kitchen wing added in the mid-19th century. It is in the Federal style.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Staff (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. Bernard L. Herman, Rebecca J. Siders and Max Van Balgooy (1992). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Johnson Home Farm" (PDF). National Park Service. and accompanying photo


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